Secondary Faculty

Professor of Computer Science; Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UABDr. Curtis Carver serves as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at UAB. He rose through the faculty ranks at the United States Military Academy to Professor of Computer Science and continues to teach in the classroom and online, holding faculty positions at both Georgia State University and UAB.

Professor of Computer Science; Associate Director, UAB Informatics Institute
Dr. Jake Chen is the Associate Director and Chief Bioinformatics Officer of the Informatics Institute, Professor of Genetics, and the chief of Informatics Section of the Genetics Department at the UAB School of Medicine.

Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Medicine, Director of the UAB Informatics Institute
In 2015 Dr. Cimino left the National Institutes of Health to be the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute at the UAB.

Professor of Computer Science; Vice-chair of Research, Director of Ocular Biomechanics and Biotransport Program, Professor — UAB Department of Ophthalmology
Dr. Downs is a professor of ophthalmology and vice-chair of research for the UAB Department of Ophthalmology.

Professor of Computer Science; Director, UAB's Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute
Matthew Might, Ph.D., a strategic leader appointed to the White House Precision Medicine Initiative by former President Barack Obama, has been named the inaugural director of the Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

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